Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."

Here’s hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria’s contributors have a while ago.

    • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      When the old school RuneScape wiki moved to a self hosted solution it was night and day the quality difference. I’d argue that OSRS (and probably regular RS) have some of the best wikis in gaming.

      https://osrs.wiki

  • inexplicablehaddock@lemmy.loungerat.ioEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m pleased to hear that they’re moving. Fandom’s had a monopoly on the community-created wiki space for far too long, and it’s had a dire effect on the usability of so many wikis. It’s like they’re trying to make their site everything but a easily usable resource for community wikis.

    On a related note, I highly recommend the “Indie Wiki Buddy” extension for Chrome and Firefox. When non-Fandom/Fextralife wikis are available, it’ll direct you to those instead; and when they’re not, it’ll allow you to view the Fandom wiki through a much more usable mirror.

  • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Just whatever you do, do not use Google docs to share information that belongs to a wiki. That’s is by far the most annoying option and 100 times worse than just having to deal with a fandom wiki.

      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        If ad companies would be paid according to customer conversion rate instead of how many ads they spam everywhere, it would collapse within a financial quarter.

        Thinking that people support a brand or product that constantly annoys them is next-level stupid, but it’s their main strategy. Google’s conversion rate is less than 4% and instead of realizing that spamming trillions of ads on every site is causing that abysmal rate, they double down and get off to bigger “reach”.

        Also, Google lied to customers of their TrueView ads and just presented people muted autoplay ads instead. Here’s an analysis about that.

        https://adalytics.io/blog/invalid-google-video-partner-trueview-ads

        tl;dr the only one benefitting from ads is Google.

          • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.netEnglish
            0·
            2 years ago

            Unfortunately, for most technology startups there are exactly two ways to pay salaries to the developers: getting investors (which lead to the exact cycle that I explained earlier) or paywalling the site up the wazoo (which leads to the community being necessarily smaller than it could have been otherwise).

  • elbowdrop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Going to Fandom is like visiting a annoying dying person because they hold the hidden information.

    • NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nuEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Exactly this.

      When a company can’t expand its market share anymore they will make the product cheaper, worse and more expensive.

      For tech this means filling the product with bloat, upping the prices for consumers, and lowering their payouts to creators (subcontractors).

  • NthLink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Fandom has been a pretty terrible experience for awhile now. I hope they find a better home.

  • Annoyed_Crabby@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Lol, they moved out from Reddit and now they moved out from Fandom.

    But their solution could be as simple as make their own wiki.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Imagine if we already had all the tools needed, and all that’s missing is a bit of hosting and a bit of moderation. If only there was a company with some extra cash behind this… haha.

      But it’s seriously time people retake some kind of control over their online activity. All these “services” looking at every occasion to screw their user is getting annoying.